Bollywood’s newest action archetype hits theatres today, and it comes in twos.Shiv Rawail’s ‘Alpha,’ starring Alia Bhatt and Sharvari, follows two government-trained assassins armed with elite technology and professional handlers. Huma Qureshi’s ‘Baby Do Die Do,’ directed by Nachiket Samant, strips all of that away. Qureshi’s character is deaf and mute, shaped into a killer by her own father, who trained her since childhood using nothing but their cramped, poor neighbourhood in place of any real facility. Both films hit theatres today, July 3.“Baby Do Die Do,” produced by Qureshi’s brother Saqib Saleem, also stars Sikandar Kher and Chunky Pandey, and is billed as a crime thriller laced with dark comedy- a rougher, more grounded take on the same premise “Alpha” tells with far more polish. Both trailers had already primed audiences for the release: “Alpha’s” dropped on June 17, “Baby Do Die Do’s” followed on June 22.Seen together, the two films mark a shift Bollywood has been building toward for years but rarely committed to outright: women as killers from the opening frame, no disguise required. That’s new. The genre’s older instinct was to hide the violence behind a reveal. Urmila Matondkar spent most of “Kaun” (1999) playing the terrified potential victim before Ram Gopal Varma exposed her as the killer only in the final stretch. Sujoy Ghosh’s “Kahaani” (2012) pushed the concealment even further- Vidya Balan’s character spent the entire film disguised as a helpless, grieving widow, when in reality she had orchestrated the hunt for her husband’s killers from the start.“Alpha” and “Baby Do Die Do” don’t bother with that misdirection. The women are killers from the first scene, and both films want you to know it- starting today.